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In 2019, it took African companies 46 weeks to reach their first billion dollars of raise while in 2021, it took 21 weeks. Predictions for 2022 are at just over 7 weeks. While this highlights that exuberance and fundraising for and on the continent exists, it does not necessarily indicate that we’re building businesses or capacity building for this century and the century beyond.

Harvard Business School’s Professor Sikochi moderated the plenary session titled ‘Scaling at the Speed of Trust’ during the Harambeans Global Summit 2022 held in Franschhoek, South Africa. During this Guild Session, he drew Harambeans into a conversation that focused on stories from their personal experiences in the Alliance and how they had created avenues for them to scale their impact while putting them on a path towards Unicorn status.

Mr. Kingsley Abrokwah H'21 spoke to Channel Africa about KudiGo, a business management app for retailers in Africa.

Arlene Mulder H'21 shares BiB's journey with Smile 90.4FM by Harambeans

Channel Africa helped us welcome the 14th class of Harambeans with an interview of Mr. Giancarlo Beukes H'21, co-founder of Impulse Biomedical.

Mr. Beukes is one of 30 new Harambeans selected from a pool of over 4900 applicants who have collectively raised over $130 million to scale their ventures across Africa.

In today’s episode, we feature Melvyn Lubega H'16, University of Oxford, co-founder of Go1.com. Go1 is an online learning platform built on a subscription-based model that makes corporate training content available to businesses of all sizes.

Lubega shares insights into the eLearning market, the power of the Harambean community, and his vision for the future.